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| bitwelder:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 06, 2020, 03:22:09 am ---Does anyone know of any solution for securely signing emails automatically from within gmail? (No, I'm not going to ditch gmail and use PGP or some other email client) --- End quote --- Even if you send mails from your own domain @eevblog.com, where you could set provisions like SPF, DKIM, DMARC which essentially announce to the world of mail servers (at least those that care to check) that the only legit mails from Dave are sent from some specific email servers, it would still not cover phishing attempts like this one where the recipient doesn't know (and has no wish to spend time to verify) whether an email from some Dave Jones @gmail/@yahoo/@hotmail is from the trusted person they know. And this situation is further aggravated by some email clients (especially those popular in the corporate world...) that try to be 'user friendly' and hide the full email address. |
| ogden:
--- Quote from: bitwelder on February 09, 2020, 08:11:48 am ---it would still not cover phishing attempts like this one where the recipient doesn't know (and has no wish to spend time to verify) whether an email from some Dave Jones @gmail/@yahoo/@hotmail is from the trusted person they know. --- End quote --- Currently anyone can create "misspelled" e-mail accounts like eevblog.business@gmail.com, eevblog_business@gmail.com, eevblog-business@gmail.com and so on - to trick even those who knows. I would miss to notice "+" versus "." difference, however it is much harder to mistake @google.com with @eevblog.com. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ogden on February 09, 2020, 08:37:41 am --- --- Quote from: bitwelder on February 09, 2020, 08:11:48 am ---it would still not cover phishing attempts like this one where the recipient doesn't know (and has no wish to spend time to verify) whether an email from some Dave Jones @gmail/@yahoo/@hotmail is from the trusted person they know. --- End quote --- Currently anyone can create "misspelled" e-mail accounts like eevblog.business@gmail.com, eevblog_business@gmail.com, eevblog-business@gmail.com and so on - to trick even those who knows. I would miss to notice "+" versus "." difference, however it is much harder to mistake @google.com with @eevblog.com. --- End quote --- When you send an email to eevblog@gmail.com or eevblog+business@gmail.com etc then you get a reply from dave@eevblog.com, I almost never send email from eevblog@gmail.com. |
| ogden:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 09, 2020, 10:07:41 am --- --- Quote from: ogden on February 09, 2020, 08:37:41 am --- --- Quote from: bitwelder on February 09, 2020, 08:11:48 am ---it would still not cover phishing attempts like this one where the recipient doesn't know (and has no wish to spend time to verify) whether an email from some Dave Jones @gmail/@yahoo/@hotmail is from the trusted person they know. --- End quote --- Currently anyone can create "misspelled" e-mail accounts like eevblog.business@gmail.com, eevblog_business@gmail.com, eevblog-business@gmail.com and so on - to trick even those who knows. I would miss to notice "+" versus "." difference, however it is much harder to mistake @google.com with @eevblog.com. --- End quote --- When you send an email to eevblog@gmail.com or eevblog+business@gmail.com etc then you get a reply from dave@eevblog.com, I almost never send email from eevblog@gmail.com. --- End quote --- Are you sure every business partner knows that and are careful enough to suspect something fishy when he receives email from business.eevblog@gmail.com? How about misspelling like this: eevbIog@gmail.com ? What I am telling here: @gmail.com for business is not that good idea and it does not look reputable move as well. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ogden on February 09, 2020, 10:16:48 am ---Are you sure every business partner knows that and are careful enough to suspect something fishy when he receives email from business.eevblog@gmail.com? How about misspelling like this: eevbIog@gmail.com ? What I am telling here: @gmail.com for business is not that good idea and it does not look reputable move as well. --- End quote --- It's essentially not my problem, it's their problem. One issue in over a decade is not cause to notify countless companies about. As I said, I do NOT send business email from @gmail.com, it comes from @eevblog.com |
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